BlockPesotum, Illinois
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Pesotum Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61863. The Survey maps it on the Tolono quadrangle. 550 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 714 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPesotum fell from 551 to 550 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 551 | |
| 2020 | 550 | -1 (-0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1950 USGS Tuscola quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Tuscola NE quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Tolono quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Tolono quadrangle1:24000
Storms near this place
15 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pesotum in 15 storm reports between 2004 and 2026: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pesotum | 1 hurt, $15,000 | A semi truck was blown over on I-57 near mile marker 220. One person was injured. |
| November 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pesotum | $75,000 | Several grain bins were destroyed, a garage was damaged, and power lines were blown down south of Pesotum. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pesotum | $30,000 | Three to five power poles were blown down at County Road 100 and US-45 just southwest of Pesotum. |
| July 2008 | Lightning | Pesotum | $25,000 | Lightning struck a garage in Pesotum and set it ablaze. The garage and its contents were destroyed. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pesotum | $15,000 | The roof of an old barn was blown off in Pesotum. |
| April 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Pesotum | $15,000 | As the tornado crossed from Douglas County into Champaign County, 3 miles southwest of Pesotum, it destroyed a barn as well as several trees and power lines. The tornado lifted and dissipated 2 miles south southwest of Pesotum. No injuries were reported. |
| January 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pesotum | - | A semi was blown over on I-57 near Pesotum. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pesotum | - | Corn crops were flattened. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pesotum | - | Several one foot-diameter branches were blown down. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pesotum | - | Several tree limbs were blown down as a gust front passed. Gustnadoes were observed along the gust front as well. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pesotum | - | Several trees and power lines were blown down. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Pesotum | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Pesotum | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Pesotum | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Pesotum | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Pesotum | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2043546 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 415575. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.